Once again, Americans are forced to deal with a senseless attack upon innocent school children. When we hear about this kind of gruesome violence, our hearts go out to the parents, grandparents, friends and communities that are in grief because of the loss of the precious lives of people who were just going about life as usual. As a parent and grandparent, I put myself in the place of the grieving families that will be forced to deal with this tragedy for the rest of their lives. Nothing is more important than the lives of those whom we love.
These kinds of random violence not only trouble us but also causes us to ask many questions. How could someone do something like this? Why is violence and lawlessness escalating in America and around the world? What is wrong with people? What takes place in the lives of the people who commit these crimes that brings them to the point of brutally and mindlessly killing innocent people? What does this tell us about the future of the culture in which we live?
Most Americans are far away from God and what the Bible teaches about who God is and who we are. The Bible is our only source of truth about God and our world. If we really want to grasp what is happening in our world, we must turn to the Bible for the answers to our questions.
Several years ago, the Lord broke my heart over what is happening in America. I began to search the Bible to find out what God says about where we are and what is about to take place. My book is entitled Living in a World with No Conscience.
The Bible teaches that we all have a mind that is wicked and has been impacted by our sin nature. God created us with a conscience to restrain us from doing some of those sinful things we think about doing. We must rely upon the Bible to help strengthen our conscience so that there is a clear distinction between right and wrong.
The Bible warns us that we must guard our minds. All that we see, hear, and experience in our culture has an impact upon what we think and how we live. It has a direct impact on the decisions we make, both good and evil. The Bible teaches that the music we listen to, the movies and television programs we watch, the computer games we play, the books that we read, and all other media and entertainment does make an impact on our conscience.
According to the Bible, a person can engage in activities that will weaken or destroy their conscience. When a person destroys their conscience, they lose all common sense and cease to have a moral compass. Only humans have been created in the image in God. We, like God, are moral beings. This is not true of animals. So, when a person destroys their conscience, they begin to morally act like wild beasts that devour one another. This explains what is happening in our culture. We are now living in a world with no conscience. This explains why lawlessness, immorality, and violence are escalating at an alarming rate.
What does this tell us about the future of America and our world? How can we help people restore their conscience? What do we need to do to protect our children and help them have a good conscience that will promote a great life for them? These questions, and many more like them, are answered in my book.
Here are the chapter titles in this 152-page book:
The Collapse of the American Culture
What is the Conscience?
What Influences the Conscience?
What Makes the Conscience Weak?
What Makes the Conscience Strong?
Living in a Nation of Fools
Living in a Culture of Deception
Violence and the End of a Culture
Pornography – The Conscience Killer
Striving for Moral Purity in a Sex-Crazy World
Living in a Demonic Society
America and the Spiritual Point of No Return
My Prayer: May God Have Mercy on America.